Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1887-06-08
HISTORY OF THE WEEK.

On the afternoon al Juness8, 4
terrific electrical storm passed over Kansas
City. Mo-, and vicinity, lightning striking
several houses. It Is reported that q
tornado swept over Liberty. Mo-, but the
wires we're in such condition that nothing
definite can be learned from that city.
Lewis Hgeked, farmer living one on mi; mile
ming understanding in his doorway and in
stantly killed. The house and contents
We're entirely consumed by fire. David
Gustav soughtshelter for himself and horse
under a tree about eight miles east Of
Kansas City. Lightning struck the tree,
The trustees of the Hiram (Ohio)
college, Of which Gen. Garfield was once
President, have chosen Prof. William E.
sWooley, acting president of Bethany W.
Virginia College, to fill the vacancy
caused by the resignation of Prof. George
II. Laughlin, late president of Hiram. Prot.
Woolev is a Kentuckian, and has taught in
New York, Pennsylvania and West Var.
ginia, and is considered one of the finest
Greek and Hebrew scholars in the country.
At Tiffin, Ohio, a detective in the
employ Of the State Saloon Association.
visited the drug stores there and purchased
whisky, sold in visitation of the Dow law
He then swore out warrants against six
drug, stores, an being obliged to pay the
was a member OF the State legislature, the
County Auditor and representatives of
membership in every church in the city.
The business failures during the last
seven days number, for the United States,
1875 for Canada, IS; total, $50, against 175
last week and 1S7 for the corresponding
week of last year. Failures are steadily d.
minishing in all sections of the country, es-
pscially in the Western states, where the
number for the week is the smallest record
ed for years, the figures for the Western and
Pacific states being but twelve.
An earthquake swept over the greater
portion of Northern California and
Western Nevada between . and 8 O'Clock
on the morning of June 3. Reports from
different points seem to place the center of
the wave at the same place on the boundary
damage was done. -;
A crowd of men in Perry county,
Indiana on Monday, lynched brute named
Chas. Davis for beastly assault upon a
girl fourteen years old, the crime being
committed while the parents were at church
On Sunday. The unfortunate child was
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tree by those in search of her.
A Little Rock, Ark, dispatch of the
LIST says the situation in the Choctaw ma
ton is becoming serious. Half bree is
are leaving the nation i in large
numbers and crossing into Arkansas for
safety. Many Indians are under arms. A
battle between the ful-bloods and the half
breeds is imminent.
The remains of Mary Harden were
inferred at Athens, Ca, on Sunday,
Howard Payne's CLONE, Sweet Home,''
which was interlned with the authors pro-
testation of love and a proposal Of marriage
which her father influenced her to reject.
The boiler in cotton factory at Nat
chez, Miss, exploded on the 2sth, demol-
ishing the mill, killing half a dozen en-
employees into panic. The damage to the
mill is $4,000, besides loss of time to re-
build.
At special meeting of the Farmers
Institute for the county of Ontario, a
resolution declaring in favor of the removal
and the United States, was I, carried
unanimously. .
!, Senator Sherman has closely followed
Mr.. Blaine into Illinois where receptions
we're arranged for him at Springfield and
Chicago June l and 2. in which cities he
made political addresses. .,z.-:.
One third of the prosperous village
of Sycamore, Wyandotte, County, Ohio,
was destroyed by fire May 81, including the
post-ofice and principal stores. Incendiar-
ism was the cause.
Capt. J. H. McNaugh, Twentieth
cavalry, is ordered to report after July 1, to
Gen. Ruger, president of the retiring board,
for examination by the board. --.sii
A condemned boiler in an elevator
at Huntington, w. Va, exploded, wrecking
the elevator and killing several persons.
Five persons were killed and sixty
injured in the Chihuahua, Mexico,
cathedral panic.